Donald Trump has a solution for North Korea’s nuclear threat — he said he’d have China make the country’s leader “disappear.”
“I would get China to make that guy disappear in one form or another very quickly,” The Donald, fresh off a victory in the New Hampshire primary, said of Kim Jong Un on “CBS This Morning.”
He didn’t specify if “disappear” meant assassinated but added, “Well, I’ve heard of worse things, frankly.”
“I mean, this guy’s a bad dude, and don’t underestimate him,” Trump said about the strongman without referring to him by name. “Any young guy who can take over from his father with all those generals and everybody else that probably want the position — this is not somebody to be underestimated.”
Trump said China has control over North Korea and the US has control over China — so “China should do that.”
“China has control — absolute control — over North Korea. They don’t say it, but they do,” he said. “And they should make that problem disappear. China is sucking us dry. They’re taking our money. They’re taking our jobs. They’re doing so much. We have rebuilt China with what they’ve taken out.”
The newly invigorated Republican front-runner swept to a decisive victory Tuesday after losing to Ted Cruz in Iowa.
He got 35.2 percent of the New Hampshire vote — more than double the second-place finisher, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who won 15.9 percent.
Despite his strong showing and brash pronouncements, Trump corrected the show’s interviewer and said he was “never unstoppable” in the race.